1. Mihai Ghimpu was born on 19 November 1951 and is a Moldovan politician who served as President of the Moldovan Parliament and Acting President of Moldova from 2009 to 2010.
17 Facts About Mihai Ghimpu
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Mihai Ghimpu was member of Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1998 and from 2009 to 2019.
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Mihai Ghimpu was born on 19 November 1951 in the village of Colonita, Chisinau, Moldavian SSR.
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Mihai Ghimpu's father, Toader Ghimpu, was an elementary school teacher only a few years because he completed only seven years of schooling during the Romanian rule, then he worked at the local kolkhoz too.
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Mihai Ghimpu is the youngest brother of Gheorghe Ghimpu, Simion Ghimpu, Visarion, and Valentina.
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Mihai Ghimpu has been married, for more than 30 years, to Dina Ghimpu, an employee of Moldova's Culture Ministry; they have no children.
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Mihai Ghimpu was one of the founders of the Popular Front of Moldova, a member of the executive committee of the movement, known as one of the leading political forces in Moldova.
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In 1990 polls, Mihai Ghimpu was elected to Moldovan Parliament as a representative of Popular Front and in 1994 polls as a representative of the Bloc of the Intellectuals.
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Alongside parliament members, Mihai Ghimpu voted the Declaration of Independence of Moldova in 1991.
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In 1997 Mihai Ghimpu was elected as chairman of the Party of Reform, created by Anatol Salaru in 1993.
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In 2007, Mihai Ghimpu was elected as alderman in Chisinau Municipal Council.
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On 28 August 2009, Mihai Ghimpu was elected as the Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, through secret voting, getting all 53 votes of the Alliance For European Integration.
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Therefore, in accordance with Article 91 of the Constitution of 1994, which provides that "the responsibility of the office shall devolve ad interim to the President of Parliament or the Prime Minister, in that order of priority", Mihai Ghimpu has become the interim President of the Republic of Moldova until a new president is elected by the Parliament.
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On 14 January 2010 Mihai Ghimpu decreed to set up a Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova, aimed at studying the responsibilities of Soviet rule in the former Moldavian SSR.
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Mihai Ghimpu unveiled the commemorative stone to the victims of totalitarianism.
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Mihai Ghimpu has been awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, 1st Class.
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Mihai Ghimpu is known as an unambiguous supporter of the common Romanian-Moldovan ethnic identity:.